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The State Elections Enforcement Commission voted June 25 to go to court to enforce a subpoena that the state Democratic Party has defied rather than hand over the party's records of communications between Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and top aides about allegedly illegal spending in his 2014 re-election campaign. The SEEC's extraordinary action generated a flurry of news reports. But now, more than a month later, all the noise has died down and no such action has been filed in state Superior Court. What's going on? Government Watch addressed that question a few days ago to the office of state Attorney General George Jepsen, which has the responsibility of filing any court...

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